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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201
Title:: Astrological miscellany
Scope & Content:: The manuscript is composed of three parts produced in different periods and locations that originally formed independent manuscripts (ff. 1r-83v; 84r-146v; 147r-183v). Contents: Pars oculi sacerdotis (ff. 1r-50v); Notes in English and Latin (ff. 51r-52v); Verba secundum modum alphabeticum,...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1150-1524
Extent:: 183 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5201, ff 51r-52v
Title:: Notes in English and Latin
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Decum precoptorum recitatio compondiosa / Thou schalt not have stringe goddes but me alone...'.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 5294, f 1r
Title:: Notes on humours, partly in figures of division.
Scope & Content:: Also includes a series of ownership inscriptions (see provenance).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 14th century
Extent:: 1 folio

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6001
Title:: Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. c. 1595, d. 1654).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6002
Title:: Thomas Harriot, Mathematical notes
Scope & Content:: The manuscript includes mathematical notes by Thomas Harriot (b. c. 1560, d. 1621), mathematician and natural philosopher, written by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6083
Title:: Charles Cavendish, Mathematical papers
Scope & Content:: Mathematical papers assembled and partially copied by the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish (b. 1595?, d. 1654). The manuscript consists of several sets of mathematical notes, treatises and loose papers, including a treatise on geometry, called Geometria phoronomica (ff. 236r-272v); a treatise...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, French, and Latin
Date Range:: 1621-1654
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6485
Title:: The Rosie Crucian Secrets, attributed to John Dee
Scope & Content:: The manuscript contains the only surviving copy of the alchemical treatise The Rosie Crucian Secrets, divided into three parts and attributed here to John Dee (b. 1527, d. 1609), mathematician and astrologer: each quire of 4 folios contains an inscription 'the first [second, etc] sheet Dr Dee.' ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 6485, ff 1r-376r
Title:: The Rosie Crucian Secrets: Their Excellent Method of Making Medicines of Metals. Also Their Lawes and Mysteries, attributed to John Dee
Scope & Content:: The Rosie Crucian Secrets, attributed to John Dee. Contains diagrams in ink: The Tree of Mercury (f. 12r); geomantic figures with a title 'Geomancy the Harmony in this preparation' (f. 93r); the Tree of the Moon (f. 93v); the Tree of Mercury (f. 98v); geomantic figures (f. 101r); the Tree of th...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1713
Extent:: 376 folios.

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